The NY Post is reporting the death of Carl Madsen.
Mr. Madsen was a long-time NFL official: he worked on-field from 1997 to 2008, then worked as a replay official from 2009.
He worked the game between the Titans and the Chiefs on Sunday. According to the report, he was driving home to Mississippi when he had some kind of medical problem. The police responded, pulled him out of the car and did first aid, and transported him to a hospital where he passed away.
He was 71. Our condolences to his family.
I just saw this tonight. We had a retired NFL referee from my small city of Muskegon, MI. His name was Dick Dolack, and he was a pharmacist, here in our city. He had been a field judge for 26 years, and died in 2018.
He worked until his knees no longer allowed him to keep up. He used to give speeches to some of the young kids in schools, encouraging them to do what they wanted to do to the best of their ability, and stay away from drugs, etc.
I didn’t know him, but my dad, the owner of a small restaurant about 40 miles north of my current city, knew him.
It seems as if he was well liked by all, and he was on the board of the small community where I worked for 35 years in a foundry.